Definitions
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- noun historical A member of a
sect ofdissenters from theecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven bypersecution to the valleys ofPiedmont .
Etymologies
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So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect around AD 1170.
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Over this path it was, however, even down to the middle ages, that a rich store of Oriental heresies and forbidden lore flowed into freemasonry, into Waldense and Albigense sects, into many a hidden doctrine and strange brotherhood now forgotten or veiled under some horrible outbreaking of stifling passion and terrible ante-Protestantism.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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